Eco-Business

JANUARY 26, 2021

Europe’s share of renewables in its electricity mix is twice the global average, making the continent a critical hotbed of innovation to better integrate more variable renewables into power grids.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 29, 2024

Dublin-based ESB Networks has announced that it has 1,000MW of electricity storage connected to the Irish power grid. According to the medium and low voltage electricity infrastructure operator, the figure includes 731.5MW of battery storage projects and 292MW from Turlough Hill pumped storage power station.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

Similar targets are being implemented or considered in Europe and elsewhere globally. Fortunately, an economy powered by renewable energy is potentially much more secure and resilient than one reliant upon fossil fuels. GW of storage online by 2030.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2022

By streamlining energy traders’ ability to match electricity supply to demand, the Tradenergy tool is aiming to help maintain the resilience and reliability of power grid operations. On a power grid, inertia is naturally produced by turbines and motors in fossil fuel generators that are synchronised to the same frequency.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Then there’s energy: whether it’s $2 gas or higher home heating bills , powering our lives has gotten pricier. These two realities, climate change and volatile energy prices, have a common denominator in fossil fuels. For starters, Alberta and Ontario are in the midst of transforming their power grids.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

gigawatt natural gas power plant in the U.K. have been shelved by the developer Drax, highlighting the challenging economics of converting coal-fired power to a cleaner, but still fossil-fuel-fired, alternative. He said the prospects for gas-fired power vary greatly around Europe. Plans for a new 3.6-gigawatt

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

“The conclusion is very simple: without a power network fit for purpose, we will not achieve our REPowerEU goal to replace Russian fossil fuels, nor will we reach our net-zero targets,” stated the European Commissioner for Energy during the first High-Level Electricity Grid Forum hosted by ENTSO-E. This is huge.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Green hydrogen is both an untested and a potentially vital way for renewable-energy-powered grids to store their intermittent power for later use, not just for hours at a time, but for days, weeks or even seasons ahead. The challenges for green hydrogen as a power grid resource. green hydrogen market landscape.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 22, 2021

For Europe, 2020 represented a historic year for renewable energy sources. In the European Union, the rate of electricity generation from renewable energy sources amounted to 38%, ahead of fossil fuels (37%), and nuclear energy (25%). Plans for the coming years show that the energy ambitions of Eastern Europe are still untapped.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

ubitricity, a UK-based EV charge point operator with a network of more than 7,000 public charge points, is partnering with UK Power Networks (UKPN), the UK’s largest electricity distribution network, to shift charging demand away from periods of peak demand on the power grid.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

France has an abundance of nuclear power generation, while the UK's growing renewable energy capacity from offshore wind farms in particular is set to enable it to sell increasing amounts of its surplus generation to Europe in the coming years.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 10, 2024

The Electric Thames project, a collaboration between UK Power Networks, LCP Delta and Marine Zero, is assessing the viability of using electric vessels to feed stored electricity back into London’s power grid.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It’s crucial in diversifying the energy network and reducing the need for fossil fuel technologies.”

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AutoGrid

JULY 24, 2023

Traditional solutions to short-term supply shortages – such as fossil fuel peaker plants – may meet the immediate need for capacity but also help accelerate climate change due to high emission rates. Europe has been hit particularly hard by heat the past few years, in part because older European homes rarely include AC.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Gas companies have been lobbying the government to grant a significant role to hydrogen during the transition away from fossil fuels. They argue that adapting the existing network to run on a blend of natural gas and hydrogen – or building new hydrogen-powered grids – will help meet climate goals.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. . A few tech companies are working to grow clean hydrogen in Europe and Asia and, lately, California. It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Such 24/7 hourly matching yields multiple benefits from increasing corporate sustainability claims’ transparency, thanks to more granular carbon accounting, to incentivising investments in renewables and storage technologies, to decarbonising and digitalising the power grid, states the study.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Global renewable energy generation is expected to grow by seven per cent in 2020, further bolstering record shares of the power mix for clean power sources after plummeting electricity demand during the coronavirus crisis saw fossil fuel generation marginalised.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The UK's growing sources of wind, solar and hydro power served to significantly curb millions of households' reliance on expensive, carbon-intensive fossil fuels last month, further underscoring the benefits of expanding clean, renewable electricity sources to tackle the ongoing energy crisis.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2024

This data has been successfully used to develop unique energy tariffs, allowing smart devices to run or charge during off-peak hours or notify customers of peak demand as an opportunity to reduce consumption – saving money while reducing demand on the power grid.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

Yet a return to business as usual marked by continued large-scale investments in fossil fuel infrastructure would only result in further volatility and economic disruption, while failing to deliver on the medium and long-term goals set out in the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development agenda, it argued.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The project will be delivered as part of the NOA Stability Pathfinder, a programme seeking new ways of increasing transmission network stability as synchronous fossil fuel generators are phased out in the UK, with the last coal power stations scheduled to close by 2024.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 9, 2022

Power network reformation. On the matter of power network reformation, the report draws attention to the inherent risks that accompany renewable sources of energy being integrated into the power grid. Increasing electrification.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

That is 40 per cent less expensive than the average for an equivalent system in the US, and 26 per cent cheaper than in Europe. Many of these economic headwinds are also impacting the fossil fuel technologies that clean technologies seek to displace, and often even more acutely.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 22, 2023

V2X allows users to leverage EV-stored excess electricity in the vehicle’s battery to power home appliances, such as fridges and washing machines, or flow back into the power grid for stability. This builds on existing smart charging technologies, where EVs can be charged when electricity prices are lower overnight.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

To become energy secure and genuinely resilient from volatile fossil fuel prices, the UK must accelerate its transition to a zero-carbon energy system, writes Nick Molho, from the Aldersgate Group. As gas is a globally priced commodity, Europe and the UK are facing severe impacts.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

Shell and BP are writing down assets while a raft of US fracking firms are entering bankruptcy protection – change is coming to the fossil fuel industry faster than anyone expected. The stranded asset hypothesis just got real. Yet another oil major is writing down the value of its assets," he said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Green hydrogen can be produced with zero emissions using renewable electricity to power the electrolysis of water, or blue hydrogen can be produced with low emissions by reacting fossil fuel gas with water at high pressure in a process called 'steam reforming', with resulting greenhouse gas emissions then captured and stored.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

But how green are the energy sources powering our EVs? Currently, electricity in the UK is supplied by a variety of generators, including fossil fuels, nuclear power, and large and small-scale renewables. In Europe, the share of energy from renewable sources in gross electricity consumption is 34 per cent on average.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

A 6GW pipeline of green hydrogen projects is being primed in the UK and Europe over the next two years, but experts fear key pieces of the policy puzzle still need putting in place. Could 2022 be the year in which green hydrogen produced using renewable power moves from 'nice idea' towards a mainstream, bankable investment proposition?

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 31, 2022

German-Dutch grid operator TenneT has commissioned Siemens Energy to supply three grid stabilisation systems for the German power grid. One of the three is touted by the energy company as the world’s first reactive power compensation system with supercapacitors used for short-term storage.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Recent analysis suggests a $2/kg price represents a potential 'tipping point' that could make green hydrogen and green ammonia the energy source of choice across multiple sectors, including steel and fertiliser manufacturing, power generation, and long-range shipping.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 18, 2023

With a power grid that has been notoriously unreliable in the past, India’s goal to transform formerly passive consumers into prosumers would seem an uphill battle. To wean itself off of coal, India will need to move away from base-load fossil fuel plants that run 24/7 to rely more on variable renewables.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In addition, with multi-market optimisation, national grids are able to sustain a steady electricity frequency,” Taskinen added. “This means less of a need for reserve power plants that mostly use fossil fuels to produce electricity, which then leads to less carbon dioxide emissions.” A subsidiary of E.ON

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

At present around 85 per cent of UK homes use fossil fuel gas for heating and cooking, and the country's 29 million houses are among the most inefficient and drafty in Europe, making decarbonising the built environment and gas grid one of the biggest hurdles on the path to achieving net zero emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

With targets now set for the phase-out of gas boilers in countries across Europe, in recent years, gas companies in the UK and the EU have lobbied hard for hydrogen over heat pumps – the model which offers the least disruption to their business model. The EUA appears to back hydrogen in its policy strategy, sponsorship and on its website.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This transition from fossil fuels, which in Europe has accelerated with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is driving the electrification of transportation, home heating and cooking, agricultural production and many industrial processes from concrete to steel worldwide. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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